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Christopher de Bellaigue is the award-winning author of The Lion House- The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent, which was chosen as a book of the year by The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator and New Yorker among others, as well as five previous books, including The Islamic Enlightenment, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2017. As a reporter he has covered war, politics, society and the environment in five continents for the Economist, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian and the BBC. He is the founder of the Lake District Book Festival in Cartmel, Cumbria, an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews and in 2026 he will take up a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. www.christopherdebellaigue.com
Absolutely spectacular. A book that brings the worlds of the Ottomans – and a lot more besides – to life. A triumph -- Peter Frankopan De Bellaigue is at the top of his game. He has made the most captivating Ottoman sultan his own. A thunderously good read -- Justin Marozzi Imagine the Shakespeare history plays mixed up with Suetonius and throw in the reports of sharp-eyed Muslim chroniclers and wily European ambassadors, and you will get a sense of what Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Golden Throne is like. Wonderful and highly enjoyable -- Margaret MacMillan A wonderful book – entrancing, addictive, full of effortless erudition -- Rory Stewart What a delight! Mesmerizing in their compelling drama of the power, the opulence and the fear at the court of the Ottomans, superb in their history, vivid in their novelistic portrait of personalities, unique in their sweep from the Doge's palace to the Sublime Porte, Christopher de Bellaigue's two volumes, The Lion House and The Golden Throne, are impossible to put down and bring to life the rise and reign of Suleiman the Magnificent like nothing else -- Simon Sebag Montefiore The pace, the language and the story-telling are simply magnificent -- Victoria Hislop Christopher de Bellaigue creates thrilling entertainment out of meticulously researched history -- Robert Peston Wolf Hall with sultans and eunuchs … In The Golden Throne, Christopher de Bellaigue vividly evokes the Ottoman emperor’s reign in all its gory glory … Gripping ... An enormously entertaining account of Suleyman the Magnificent’s middle years * The Times * Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping * Telegraph on The Lion House * The most daring history book of the year. Unforgettable -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times on The Lion House *
